A Montenegrin warlord has been jailed for 45 years for murder, rape and torture of non-Serb civilians in Sarajevo in the Bosnian war.
Prosecutors say the ‘Butcher of Bosnia" sought to "cleanse" Bosnia of Croats and Muslims, and ordered the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.
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/ 2 September 2007
Organisers of an event in which almost 7 000 couples kissed simultaneously in a Bosnian town on Saturday said their effort deserved a place in the Guinness World Records book. A total of 6 980 couples kissed for 10 seconds at the main square of the north-eastern town of Tuzla.
Sarajevo had been dreaming of it for 15 years: a moist, dense cube of thin pastry and hazelnut cream, skilfully layered, then drizzled with chocolate glaze by the master patissiers of the Jadranka bakery. The pastry shop was a Sarajevo landmark, and so was its signature ”Bohem” cake. Boarded up when war erupted in 1992 and the Bosnian capital came under siege, Jadranka was lamented but never forgotten.
Two armed men disguised as Muslim women in burqas held up a bank in Sarajevo and got away with some 000. They said the pair entered a Union bank branch in the capital wearing head-to-toe black dresses and veils typical of women adhering to the orthodox Islamic code and trained guns on customers.
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/ 24 November 2006
Forensic experts exhumed the remains of 156 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in a mass grave found in an eastern Bosnian village, an official of a commission for missing persons said on Friday. Ninety complete and 66 incomplete bodies were found, Murat Hurtic of the Muslim-Croat federation’s commission for missing persons said.
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/ 5 September 2006
Sarajevo, where some people used to go hungry in order to feed their pets during Bosnia’s war, today shows little sympathy to stray dogs, killing them in their thousands each year. But a group of animal-rights activists hopes to improve the plight of pooches in the Bosnian capital, having finally found support from official ranks to help their bid to offer dogs ”life instead of death”.
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/ 24 November 2005
Youths in the Bosnian city of Mostar said on Thursday they were delighted they would beat Hong Kong to erect a statue honouring the late martial arts film legend Bruce Lee. The statue is to be unveiled at the weekend in the southern city more famous for its 16th-century Ottoman bridge, which reopened last year after being destroyed during Bosnia’s 1992-1995 war.
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/ 17 November 2005
A referee who stopped a player protesting a decision by knocking him out is under investigation by the Bosnian football association. ”We are currently gathering reports on the incident,” Bosnian FA spokesperson Slavica Pecikoza said. The match was abandoned immediately after the incident.
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/ 11 November 2005
Forensic experts have recovered the remains of 227 victims of the Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s worst mass killing since World War II, an official said on Friday. In 1995, Serb troops overran the eastern Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica and killed as many as 8 000 Muslim men and boys.
It was a case of third time unlucky for a hapless but determined Bosnian thief who was arrested three times on the same day for three different crimes, a report said. The 44-year-old was first caught breaking into a car on Saturday and taken to a police station in the Sarajevo suburb of Ilidza.
The remains of 243 people have been exhumed from a mass grave in northwestern Bosnia, believed to have been inmates of a notorious Serb detention camp during the 1992-95 war, an official said on Wednesday. ”So far we have exhumed 243 bodies, more than half of which were complete,” Commission for Missing People member Jasmin Odobasic said.